Installation guide
Procedure
1. Click Start and select All Programs > Administrative Tools > Server Manager.
2. In the navigation pane, expand Roles and click Remote Desktop Services.
3. In the Remote Desktop Services pane, scroll down to Role Services.
4. Click the Remote Desktop Session Host role service to highlight it.
5. Click Remove Role Services.
6. Deselect the Remote Desktop Session Host role service and follow the prompts to finish disabling the
Remote Desktop Session host role.
Enable DCOM
The Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) protocol allows application components to interact
across Windows machines. DCOM must be enabled on the Windows machine to install and run VCM.
Although DCOMis enabled by default when Windows Server 2008 R2 is installed, DCOMmight have
been disabled by a custom installation or a lock-down script.
Procedure
1. Click Start and select All Programs > Administrative Tools > Component Services to open
Component Services.
2. In the Component Services navigation pane, expand Component Services and expand Computers.
3. Right-click the computer and click Properties.
4. Click the Default Properties tab.
5. Select Enable Distributed COM on this computer and click OK.
What to do next
Configure the database server. See "Configure the VCM Database Server" below.
Configure the VCM Database Server
To ensure that the installation creates the VCM databases, you must configure the VCM database server
before you install VCM. In a three-tier split installation configuration, the VCM database server resides on
a separate machine. The databases include VCM, VCM_Coll, VCM_Raw, and VCM_UNIX.
Use of a shared SQL Server is supported for VCM. However, VCM makes heavy use of SQL Server for
query and transaction processing. You must ensure that you have or can add enough capacity to a shared
SQL Server so that VCM and any other databases on the shared server do not experience poor
performance.
The SQL Server license includes SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). In your three-tier split installation
configuration, when you run SSRS and SQL Server on the same machine, the SQL Server database
machine can take on the role of the Report Server (SSRS).
VCM 5.7 supports running SSRS on the Web server or on the database server in a split installation.
Depending on the separation of services in your environment, you might want to install SSRS on the Web
server machine in a split installation, because SSRS has its own Web server.
If you install SSRS on the Web server, it requires an additional SQL Server license, because you are
installing SSRS on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that is separate from the SQL Server database
services. If you run SQL Server Enterprise Edition, all SQL Server services running in guests on a single
virtual machine host are covered by the Enterprise Edition license.
Three-Tier Split Installation
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